Here are my mother and my brothers!

In Matthew’s Gospel, in his twelfth chapter, he wrote of the early ministry of Jesus and the recognition he received, both from followers and those who questioned his abilities.  His ministry was underway and his twelve disciples had been given “authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.” (Matthew 10:1) Chapter twelve then tells of Jesus being the Lord of the Sabbath, quoting Isaiah’s words about being the servant chosen by God (Isaiah 42:1-4). Jesus had entered a synagogue and preached and healed, while the leaders thought only one of Beelzebub could have such effect on God’s day. Jesus called them a “brood of vipers,” and then he told them how the Gentiles of Assyria (“men of Nineveh”) benefited from believing a prophet of the Lord they did not worship, when Jonah was sent to warn them. Jesus said he was a greater prophet than Jonah, yet he was rejected by those who claimed to worship the same Yahweh. Therefore, just as Nineveh later was destroyed by their return to wicked ways, from denying another prophet of the Lord, the same fate would come to the house of Jerusalem.

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